Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-05-12

WAsiiINGTON, Apf1i ~, 1901.
Washington is duh. terribly dull just
now, all the newspaper correspondents
think. Second-term gossip has about
died out, and the complicatine situa-
tions to which it gave rise have been
worked for all they were worth.
Spring il here with such accessories
as sun-shades, buttOnh0le bouquets,
straw wberry vendors, street harpists
and the woman with the hand organ
and the baby, but society is compara-
lively quiet. Weddings are still in
vogue, but the gay world was pretty
well exhausted with the winters rOut
and does not revert to it's occupation
with its ante Lenten zest.
But April's torpor in Washington
will he more than compensated for by
activity in May. Everybody is talk
ing about the national drill. and prep
arations are being carried forward as
rapidly as possible. General Augur.
who has been appointed commadant
Of the camp, is in appearance COM
manding, and the embodiment Of SOL
dierly qualities. He wears side whisk-
ers and eyeglasses and is altogether a
very fine looking officer. Helives with
his family in an old fashioned brick
house in Georgetown, and is on the re-
tired list of the army, for which he re-
marked that he was glad. because lac
would have leisure to attend to his
new duties, while If he were in active
service he could not have accepted the
position.
But the drill is not the only event
billed for May. Society always fiocks
to the Jocky club races, and they will
come OF next week. Then Forepaugh's :
circus is coming. Patti is coming, the
national association OF hotel keepers
is coming, there are to be reunions ol
one kind and another, the unveiling Oi
the Garfield statue, and the meeting OF
the Army of the Cumberland will also
take place early in the month Of flow
ers.
II looked last week, before President
Cleveland's views and wishes concern
ing second term had been reported
as il nothing on earth could prevent
his denomination. Now that the man
iigatation of alleged coyness and indif
ference concerning that possibility Il
said OF him. it looks rs il his renomi
nation could not be prevented by any
thing on the sarth beneath or in tn,
hea vens above. Above all snings els,
the human heart desires the inaccessi
BILE, and if Mr.. Cleveland should see III
to say definitely that he did not wisl
to be president for second term
there would he general clamor fol
him, coming even from those who ar
now his political enemies.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has been wrestling with the lon
and short haul across the continent
All the etranscOntincntal railways hav,
applied for the suspension ofthe shOr
haul clause, and have put forth Al
good ii not better reasons why j
should be done than those which wer
given and proved sufficient in the cas-
of the southern railways. 1t looks II
ii the commission will have to serv
all alike, although it il acourt author
izei to decide different ways for eac
railroad. 1t can suspend in one cas-
and refuse to do SO in a precisely sim
lar one.
While our lawmakers are away, COZ
veniences and improvements at Il!
Capitol which they voted money fo
are gradually being made. Two he
elevators are to be put in place-Ol
at the senate end and oneat the hOu'
end OF the building. There will the
he four elevators in the capitOl-or
at each OF the four corners, which vi
add greatly to the convenience Of vi
itors as well as legislators. The col
. tract for constructing the two ne
ones was yesterday awarded to IA Cl
caso company at S6,345. The amour
: appropriated by congress for the who
work was $4,000.
3 The landscape architect of the NJ
! tional capital recently made the graz
mistake Of setting out evergreen tre'
on the new marble terrace around Il
north and west fronts of the capit'
building. The dome has long bee
criticised as looking too large, or %,
of proportion to the rest OF the stri
ture, and the terrace was planned an
built for the purpose of increasing Il
apparent height of The building.
Of course these trees break the arch
tectural continuity and destroy al
surdly the very illusion of height whic
the terrace is intended to create. i
stead OF seeming the base Of the cap
tol facade the terrace now looks like
wall around the capitol, with tre'
planted on the lawn inside. The tire,
can be seen from a distance over ii
parapet OF the terrace and the effect
that of an enclosed garden, from ever
standpoint. 1t is also argued by a
critics that the vertical lines OF Il
.l :.